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- Sarcoidal infiltration of tattoos
Corticosteroid treatment resulted in clinical improvement after 3 months.
- Perioperative medicine: Combining the science and the art
Although we may wish for “cookbook” guidelines, often we must practice the “art” of medicine.
- In Reply: Diabetes therapy and cancer risk (October 2014)
A reader comments on the risk of cancer with diabetes drugs (October 2014).
- A 41-year-old man with abdominal pain
His symptoms and imaging findings suggested an infarction in the spleen, but what caused the infarction?
- Ebola—lessons still to be learned
So far, the disease has barely touched our country, but it has had a big impact on our health care system and our national psyche.
- When does an adult with headaches need central nervous system imaging?
Without red-flag symptoms, central nervous system imaging is unwarranted and may be harmful.
- Identifying statin-associated autoimmune necrotizing myopathy
Unlike simple myalgia or myositis, this condition can persist or even arise de novo after the statin is stopped.
- Screening guidelines: A matter of perspective
Guidelines are only guidelines: we should use them within a personalized context.
Caring for women with HIV: Unique needs and challengesFertility, pregnancy, contraception, and aging must be taken into account.
- Six screening tests for adults: What’s recommended? What’s controversial?
Guidelines for screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm and cancers of the colon, cervix, lung, breast, and prostate.